Blogging the election/2
Roberto Costa introduced the way the respondents panel, or "SWG community" is composed and "recruited" - tens of thousands of respondents, with more than 1,000 new subscribers each...
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Blogging the election/1
Maurizio Pessato, CEO of SWG, introducing the job Creating, analyzing and publishing polls has become more difficult in these last years, due to growing attention - and, therefore, pressure: just think...
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2008 Election, behind the curtain
Tomorrow and Monday, as the general election goes on, I will be a guest at SWG - one of the most important media research companies in Italy. As it has already been done during the 2006 election, their...
To vote or not to vote
Marco Lupoi has collected and summed up a discussion going on on the Nòva100 mailing list. Contributions about the subject ranged from explicit declarations about the vote to the desire to call themselves...
10 questions
10 domande is an initiative promoted by Il Sole 24 Ore.com and Nòva24, collecting short video questions from citizens and submitting the most voted ones to the candidates in the oncoming election (April...
CHI 2008
Luca Chittaro is blogging from the CHI 2008 event in Florence, covering in such depth that I've stopped regretting not being there... Today, he published two interviews with Michael Brzozowski (HP Labs)...
How boring.
In a decision aimed at protecting their brand (and being more corporate-like), Linden Lab updated their terms of service and restricted the use of trademarked items such as the name "Second Life". According...
Innovation and repackaging
Perhaps the title of this post should be Innovation OR repackaging?, or Innovation IN repackaging. I believe the preposition reveals a lot about the idea as to what innovation means for different people. [this...
Instant appreciation
SWG, a marketing and media research company, has published on its YouTube channel a video exhibiting an application of its VideoWave system, analyzing the reactions of the TV audience to a couple of video...
BuzzDash quick polls
I've been playing with the BuzzDash service for a while, and created a couple of polls. I had read on the terms of service that the polls I'd submit could be altered by the service manager, but I didn't...
Blogbabel closed down
The BlogBabel service has been closed down (hopefully temporarily) by its authors last Saturday, following an animated controversy which was originated by the decision to alter the ranking algorithm, lessening...